Information AboutSword Dance |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT SWORD DANCE | |
| european folk dances | |
| swords | |
| mock combat | |
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General sword dance forms include:
MOCK BATTLE Mock battle sword dances are found worldwide, varying from the Greek ''Xiphism'', the ''Saltatio Armatum'' of the ancient Romans, through Turkish, Persian and Middle Eastern traditions to Japanese mock battle dances. Some European sword dances, such as the dance from the island of Korcula in Croatia, include both hilt-and-point and mock battle sequences. LINKED Hilt-and-point sword dances are, or were, performed all over Europe . These are particularly concentrated in an area corresponding to the boundaries of the Holy Roman Empire at around 1400-1500, and many of these traditional dances are still performed in Germany , Austria and the Flanders . Linked sword dances were also found all over the Iberian Peninsula , and are still widely performed in the Basque Country . Sword dances performed by the Guild s of Smiths and Cutlers in Nuremberg are recorded from 1350 . 16th Century records of sword dances survive from all over Germany. Depictions of dances survive from Zürich ( 1578 ) and Nuremberg ( 1600 ) Hilt-and-point sword dances traditional to England Include Rapper Sword and Long Sword , although both of these are now also performed by revival teams outside their traditional areas, including teams in most of the English-speaking world. English sword dancing has also been brought to the New World, initially as part of the " Morris Revivial " of the 1970s and 1980s. Teams are now extant in most major metropolitan areas in North America . The New York Sword Ale is an annual gathering over Presidents Day weekend that brings together over a dozen sword teams form the east coast and around the world.
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